Toward the goal of guiding blood vessels to regenerate into a healthy state after heart disease, our team is creating new materials with the combination of strength, biocompatibility and bioresorption that could revolutionize treatment of coronary heart disease.If successful...

CARISMAND aims to deal with issues of preparedness, response to disasters and after-crisis recovery which are, inevitably, influenced by the cultural background of individuals and the society they live in. Cultural factors play an important role in determining the way people...

Previous studies have suggests that auditory cortex – a part of the brain that typically processes sound – is not ‘idle’ in Deaf individuals, but instead may respond to input from other sensory modalities such as vision and touch. Such crossmodal plasticity (CP) is...

In PIX4life we aim to mature a high performance, high yielding and CMOS-processing compatible SiN Photonic IC pilot line together with the accompanying supply chain for applications in the visible range (400-1000 nm) in order to become the world’s premier pilot line for...

European forests will experience novel growth conditions for which no historical reference exist. To correctly predict the impact of global change we have to understand the long-term response of forest ecosystems to management under climate change. To do so, it is necessary to...

Finding simple solutions to complex problems has been a challenge for humankind for decades.VERDI aims at designing a multifunctional nanosystem to heal complex bone diseases. This is an engineering challenge that will be tackled through the use of building blocks designed on...

In its communication on the “European Cloud Initiative” the European Commission in April 2016 stressed the need for building an European Data Infrastructure including high-end supercomputers, which will around 2022 reach the exascale performance level. In this proposal, a...

FLOWERED objective is to contribute to the development of a sustainable water management system in areas affected by fluoride contamination in water, soils and food in the African Rift Valley countries (Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania) to improve living standards of its population...

SilhouetteOfSeaweed contributes to consumer’s safety by overcoming barriers in estimating toxicity of arsenic in seaweed. The ocean covers 71% of the planet and for future sustainability and long term food security for a growing global population the need for using the ocean...

CASPER brings together experts from industry and academia, from cross-sectorial research areas having complementary background, with the long-term goal to analyse and exploit QoE towards designing and developing efficient schemes for managing multimedia services over SDN/NFV...